Feb 10, 2026 at 5:45 PM Yes it is. And you know I’m right cause Russian’s keep hacking this site every couple of hours. Only our bored a----s would deal with this mess.
Feb 10, 2026 at 6:10 PM I ain’t no conspiracy theorist, but something evil is afoot…. Oh yeah it’s my midget, 12 inches of YelaWolf
Feb 11, 2026 at 7:49 AM The game didn’t end g-unit. That’s a myth. It was the culture getting tired of 50 dominating and the mtv crowd was done with gangsta rap. Alt rap like Kanye and Lupe were coming in and taking that audience. Backpack rap took over by 2008/2009.
Feb 11, 2026 at 7:52 AM Eminem adapting through the eras is fascinating. Especially mmlp2. Could’ve gone the wack Macklemore route, but kept it lyrical
Feb 11, 2026 at 7:58 AM The Tobey verse isn’t a sub diss. It’s just rap, letting the “top 5’s” know they are midgets. It’s not a reach. The Empire State Building line is for Jay, No ceilings is for Wayne.
Feb 11, 2026 at 8:38 AM Someone else noticed Jay won’t let white artists headline the halftime show lol bout time Big Boy agrees lol
Feb 11, 2026 at 9:15 AM Eminem once believed Stat Quo could be a cornerstone of Shady Records’ next chapter. For a brief moment, that belief placed the Atlanta rapper inside hip hop’s most powerful creative circle. Yet the album never arrived, and years later, Stat Quo has finally explained why. Even after having a handful of Eminem, 50 Cent and Dr. Dre features The Atlanta Native Enters Shady Studios Stanley Bernard Benton, better known as Stat Quo, did not originally plan a music career. Instead, he studied economics and international business, considering law school before Scarface urged him to rap seriously. Soon after, his Underground Atlanta Mixtapes reached Los Angeles through industry connections. Eventually, they landed with Mel-Man and then Dr. Dre. One late-night session at Record One Studios produced “The Future”, which later reached Eminem. As a result, Stat Quo became only the second artist, after 50 Cent, signed jointly to Shady Records and Aftermath Entertainment. The feat that no one could repeat until Ez Mil struck the deal with both Dr and Eminem in 2023. However, his Shady Records debut album, on which he worked for three years, has never been released by the label. Expectations Inside a Winning Machine At that time, expectations inside the camp were extreme. Albums moved quickly, radio responded instantly, and platinum plaques felt routine rather than exceptional. Now, looking back, Stat Quo says the issue was never confidence in his talent. Instead, the concern was scale and risk. “It didn’t make financial sense for them to risk the brand by throwing me out there and not succeeding”, Stat points out to the 3rd Verse podcast hosts. Moreover, the goal was never a modest result, he adds: “They didn’t want to just let me come out and do platinum”. The turning point came during a session with Eminem. Em brought a potential single called “Dance On It”, writing the hook and building the beat himself. As per his unfortunate habit, Stat Quo responded poorly. “I told Em, ‘Yeah, we could use this as a single. I’ll put it out if you give me a million dollars and rap on it’”. The reaction was immediate. “Em got so mad, he stormed out of the studio”, Stat recalls. Dre saw the damage clearly. “I remember Dre was like ‘why would you say that?’ I was like ‘was that wrong?’ He’s like ‘yeah! that’s wrong!’ It was over. Em was like, ‘f--- it, I’m done. I tried to help you’”. Years later, Stat Quo admits the mistake without hesitation. “When someone who sold quadrillion albums tells you something should be a single, you should be quiet, and that should be a single. Had that come out, Marshall would’ve championed it. The label would have got behind it because he championed it. It would have been an instant success”. In fact, Eminem did champion Stat through all his years on the label. Em put his on features (two officials and more, if count leaked tracks), he gave him radio time, included on the label compilations. But sinse that session, the trust has been broken. When Momentum Disappears Although Dre initially tried to continue, momentum had already faded. Without external pressure, perfection replaced urgency, which led Stat Quo to make an interesting observation about Dre’s work approach. “Dre was like, “What are we gonna do to the album now?” And I’m like, “Oh, that s---’s never coming, right?” But Dre was like, “We gonna finish it up. We gonna finish the album up here”. But I knew that wasn’t going to happen. Just because with Dre, the noise from the outside has to be there. If he ain’t hearing no noise from outside of what’s going on, he just not really f---ing with it. He’ll sit there and overthink the project. But when the noise is, like Kendrick’s noise outside of Aftermath and even TDE, what they were doing for Kendrick, it became so loud that you could not ignore it. They had to put the record out. But if it was up to Dre, they would have kept working on that until it was this perfect thing”. Evidently, with Stat Quo, without that noise, the album slowly disappeared. Even after having a bunch of Eminem, 50 cent and Dr. Dre features. The Lesson Learnt Looking back, Stat Quo names the real cause. Talent alone never guarantees success. What matters is trust, timing, and understanding the room. Most of all, listening to people who already earned their position matters. Because talent opens the door, but judgment decides whether it stays open.
Feb 11, 2026 at 9:16 AM Geeeez stat quo was at the right place and the right time with everyone working with him…bunch of features and said the wrong thing to Em….career buried
Feb 11, 2026 at 9:33 AM Maybe I misunderstood, but is that really all it took for Em to be mad at him forever?
Feb 11, 2026 at 9:52 AM This is exactly what happened... 50 was still on top during the whole game beef. 50 also helped destroy himself with his ego.
Feb 11, 2026 at 10:14 AM 50 was also too formulaic and it hurt him badly. Amusement Park was a wannabe Candy Shop for instance and it flopped hard.
